"honor film directors in science fiction, fantasy and horror. It has been given 36 times, including a tie for the 1977 film year. James Cameron holds the record of the most wins with five (for six nominations), while Steven Spielberg is the most nominated director with twelve nominations (for four wins). Only three other directors have won the award more than once: Peter Jackson (three times), Bryan Singer and Ridley Scott (two times). At the 22nd Saturn Awards (for the 1995 film year), Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win the award, 15 years before becoming the first woman"
"history. Of the 55 films that have been awarded Best Film, 24 have also been awarded Best Director. The first one to achieve this was Ingmar Bergman, whose film ""The Silence"" won the Best Film award at the first 1st Guldbagge Awards. The last one who achieved this was Magnus von Horn through his film, ""The Here After"" at the 51st Guldbagge Awards (2015). The first woman who won the award for Best Director was Marianne Ahrne, for the film ""Near and Far Away"" (1976). Besides her, only nine women have ever been awarded for Best Director: Suzanne Osten for"
"and the depth of her work."" Campion was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2016 New Year Honours, for services to film. Jane Campion Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. Campion is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is the first—and thus far, only—female filmmaker in history to receive the ""Palme d'Or"", which she received for directing the acclaimed film ""The Piano"" (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original"
"Jane Campion Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. Campion is the second of five women ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and is the first—and thus far, only—female filmmaker in history to receive the ""Palme d'Or"", which she received for directing the acclaimed film ""The Piano"" (1993), for which she also won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Campion was born in Wellington, New Zealand, the second daughter of Edith (née Beverley Georgette Hannah), an actress, writer, and heiress, and Richard M. Campion, a theatre and"
"Kathryn Bigelow Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American director, producer, and writer. Covering a wide range of genres, her films include ""Near Dark"" (1987), ""Point Break"" (1991), ""Strange Days"" (1995), """" (2002), ""The Hurt Locker"" (2008), ""Zero Dark Thirty"" (2012), and ""Detroit"" (2017). With ""The Hurt Locker"", Bigelow became the first woman to win any of the Academy Award for Best Director, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing, the BAFTA Award for Best Direction, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Director. She also became the first woman to win the"
"who became the first female director to be nominated for an Academy Award with ""Paw"", Susanne Bier, the first female director to win a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and a European Film Award, and Lone Scherfig, whose films have been nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTAs and a European Film Award. The oldest Danish film award is named Bodil Award after Bodil Ipsen and Bodil Kjer, and the Alice Award, which is award to the best female director at the Copenhagen International Film Festival is named in honor of Alice O'Fredericks. In the silent era French women"
"Golden Globe Award for Best Director The Golden Globe Award for Best Director has been presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an organization composed of journalists who cover the United States film industry for publications based outside North America, since 1943. Having won all four of his nominations, Elia Kazan has been honored most often in this category. Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, David Lean, Miloš Forman, and Oliver Stone tie for second place with three wins each. Steven Spielberg has had the most nominations (twelve) and has received the award twice. Barbra Streisand is the only woman to"
"nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner (""The Bad and the Beautiful"" and ""Hans Christian Andersen"", both with six). This occurred again at the 79th Academy Awards. Shirley Booth became the last person born in the 19th century to win an Oscar in a Leading Role. She is also the first woman in her 50s to win the award, at the age of 54 (the second woman in her 50s to win, Julianne Moore, was 54 when awarded at the 87th Academy Awards). John Ford's fourth win for Best Director set a record for the most wins"
"of ""The Eyes of Laura Mars"". Ziskin was married to writer Alvin Sargent from 2010 until her death. Laura Ziskin Laura Ellen Ziskin (March 3, 1950 – June 12, 2011) was an American film producer, known as the Executive Producer of the romantic comedy ""Pretty Woman"" (1990) and as the first woman to produce the Academy Awards telecast alone, producing the 74th Academy Awards (2002) and the 79th Academy Awards (2007). Ziskin was born and raised in a Jewish family in the San Fernando Valley, California, the daughter of Jay Ziskin and Elaine Edelman. Jay was a psychologist and lawyer"
"Alice Award The Alice Award was a Danish film award presented annually at the Copenhagen International Film Festival to the Best Female Director. The award was named after Danish director Alice O'Fredericks (1899–1964) who, with 72 feature films, is the most productive film director in Danish cinematic history, and her 1950 film ""The Red Horses"" remains Denmark's greatest audience success. The award was created by the international network of Women in Film and TV and presented at the Copenhagen festival for the first time in 2004. The intent of the award is to draw attention to the lack in the"
"Tony wins. At the age of thirty-two years and thirty-eight days, Damien Chazelle became the youngest person to win Best Director; Norman Taurog was only two hundred and twenty-two days older than Chazelle when he won Best Director for the 1931 comedy ""Skippy"". Kevin O'Connell finally ended the longest losing streak in Oscar history after 20 unsuccessful nominations for sound mixing, winning for ""Hacksaw Ridge"". ""Moonlight""s Dede Gardner became the first woman to win twice for producing, following her previous Best Picture win for ""12 Years a Slave"". Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double"
"Best Art Direction and has been nominated for two more: Patrizia von Brandenstein Patrizia von Brandenstein (born April 15, 1943) is an American production designer. She was the first woman to win an Academy Award for production design and has been nominated for two more in the category Best Art Direction. She has shown versatility in creating sets for both lavish historical films and glossy contemporary fare. She was born in Arizona to German Russian emigrant parents. Her education abroad closed with two years as an apprentice at the famed Comédie Française. She started with the off-Broadway scene of 1960s"
"6518 Hollywood Blvd. The Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival gives out the Lois Weber Award in her honor since 2017. Lois Weber Lois Weber (June 13, 1879 – November 13, 1939) was an American silent film actress, screenwriter, producer, and director. She is identified in some historical references as ""the most important female director the American film industry has known"", and among “the most important and prolific film directors in the era of silent films"". Film historian Anthony Slide has also asserted, ""Along with D.W. Griffith, Weber was the American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects"
"Susanne Bier Susanne Bier (, born 15 April 1960) is a Danish film director. She is best known for her feature films ""Brothers"", ""After the Wedding,"" the Academy Award-winning ""In a Better World"" and the TV miniseries ""The Night Manager"". Bier is considered one of the greatest living film directors and she is the first female director to win a Golden Globe, an Academy Award, an Emmy Award and a European Film Award. Susanne Bier was born to a Jewish family in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 15, 1960. Her father's family, Rudolf Salomon Baer (born 1930), emigrated from Germany to"
"to director Aleksandr Dovzhenko and collaborated with him on his later films, including ""Michurin"" (1949), for which she was awarded a Stalin Prize. For ""The Chronicle of Flaming Years"" she won the Best Director award at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR when she turned 80. Yuliya Solntseva Yuliya Ippolitovna Solntseva (; 7 August 1901 – 28 October 1989) was a Soviet actress and film director. As an actress, she is known for starring in the silent sci-fi classic ""Aelita"" (1924). She is the first female winner of the Best Director Award"
"announced during the awards ceremony on March 7, 2010. Kathryn Bigelow made history as the first female to win the Oscar for Best Director. ""Up"" became the second animated film to be nominated for Best Picture. 1991's ""Beauty and the Beast"" was the first such film to achieve this feat. Best Adapted Screenplay winner Geoffrey Fletcher was the first African American winner of a screenwriting Oscar. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with a double dagger (). The Academy held its 1st Annual Governors Awards ceremony on November 14, 2009, during which the following awards were presented."
"Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received a record of four Academy Awards for Best Actress. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents, Hepburn began to act while studying at Bryn Mawr College. After four years"
"uniformly skilled four-member cast"". Jenson is the sister of classical violinist Dylana Jenson. Vicky Jenson Victoria ""Vicky"" Jenson (born 1960) is a film director of both live-action and animated films, and has been said to be ""one of Hollywood's most inspiring female Directors"". She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation including ""Shrek"", the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, giving rise to one of Hollywood's largest film franchises. Jenson began painting animation cells at the age of 13. She attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and California State University Northridge. She ""started"
"Best Picture: ""The Exorcist"" (1973), ""Jaws"" (1975), ""The Sixth Sense"" (1999), ""Black Swan"" (2010), and ""Get Out"" (2017). No documentary has yet been nominated for Best Picture, although ""Chang"" was nominated in the ""Unique and Artistic Production"" category at the 1927/28 awards. In 2017, at the 89th Academy Awards, presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty read ""La La Land"" as the winner of the award. However, they had mistakenly been given the envelope for the ""Best Actress in a Leading Role"" award, which Emma Stone had won for her role in ""La La Land"" moments prior. When the mistake was"
"for Best Picture Evelyn O'Neill Evelyn O'Neill is an American talent manager and film producer. She is best known for producing the critically acclaimed film ""Lady Bird"", for which she was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards. She is also a founding partner of Management 360 and the talent manager for Julianne Moore, Chadwick Boseman, Salma Hayek, Daniel Kaluuya, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Greta Gerwig. O'Neill graduated cum laude from Harvard University and went on to the Master's program in Film History, Theory and Criticism at the University of California, Los Angeles, She"
"and also received a Golden Globe nomination for her direction. In 2010, she won the award for Best Director and ""The Hurt Locker"" won Best Picture at the 63rd British Academy Film Awards. She became the first woman to receive an Academy Award for Best Director for ""The Hurt Locker."" She was the fourth woman in history to be nominated for the honor, and only the second American woman. A competitor in the category was her ex-husband James Cameron as the director of the sci-fi film ""Avatar,"" with a budget of $200 million"". The Hurt Locker"" was far less expensive"
"""Be better!"" However, Heston notes that by the time a scene is done, regardless of how hard it was to do, it always came off well: Fourteen actors won Oscars under Wyler's direction, including Bette Davis in ""Jezebel"" (1938) and her nomination for ""The Letter"" (1940). Davis summed up their work together: ""It was ""he"" who helped me to realize my full potential as an actress. I met my match in this exceptionally creative and talented director."" Other Oscar winners were Olivia de Havilland in ""The Heiress"" (1949), Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, ""Roman Holiday"" (1953), Charlton Heston in"
"Awards, six Hispanic/Latino directors have been nominated a total of eight times in this category with four wins among them. Academy Award for Best Director The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with the award being split into ""Dramatic"" and ""Comedy"" categories; Frank Borzage and Lewis Milestone won"
"director in history to receive this award, at the age of 32 for his work on ""La La Land"". Two directing teams have shared the award; Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for ""West Side Story"" in 1961 and Joel and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" in 2007. The Coen brothers are the only siblings to have won the award. Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to have won the award, for 2009's ""The Hurt Locker"". As of the 2018 ceremony, Guillermo del Toro is the most recent winner in this category for his work on ""The Shape"
"Vicky Jenson Victoria ""Vicky"" Jenson (born 1960) is a film director of both live-action and animated films, and has been said to be ""one of Hollywood's most inspiring female Directors"". She has directed projects for DreamWorks Animation including ""Shrek"", the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, giving rise to one of Hollywood's largest film franchises. Jenson began painting animation cells at the age of 13. She attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco and California State University Northridge. She ""started as a background artist at Hanna-Barbera in 1977, became a storyboard artist for"
"Laura Ziskin Laura Ellen Ziskin (March 3, 1950 – June 12, 2011) was an American film producer, known as the Executive Producer of the romantic comedy ""Pretty Woman"" (1990) and as the first woman to produce the Academy Awards telecast alone, producing the 74th Academy Awards (2002) and the 79th Academy Awards (2007). Ziskin was born and raised in a Jewish family in the San Fernando Valley, California, the daughter of Jay Ziskin and Elaine Edelman. Jay was a psychologist and lawyer who died of prostate cancer, aged 77, on June 14, 1997. After graduating from the University of Southern"
"years later, and his loved ones: ""whatever bad moments that I had certainly could never compare to that family"". Jodie Foster Alicia Christian Foster (born November 19, 1962) is an American actress, director, and producer. She has received two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B DeMille Award. For her work as a director, she has been nominated a Primetime Emmy Award. A child prodigy, Foster began her professional career as a child model when she was three years old, and she made her acting debut in 1968 in the television sitcom"
"ten Best Picture nominees instead of five, a practice that was discontinued after the 16th ceremony in 1944. On February 20, 2010, in a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Elizabeth Banks. ""The Hurt Locker"" won six awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director. Other winners were ""Avatar"" with three awards, ""Crazy Heart"", ""Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"", and ""Up"", with two awards, and ""The Cove"", ""Inglourious Basterds"", ""The"
"an Oscar, with Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis winning. Burton later said, ""I didn't think I could learn anything about comedy - I'd done all of Shakespeare's. But from him I learned,"" adding, ""He conspires with you to get your best."" However, it was Taylor who chose Nichols to be their director, because, writes biographer David Bret, ""she particularly admired him because he had done a number of ad-hoc jobs to pay for his education after arriving in America as a seven-year-old Jewish refugee."" Producer Ernest Lehman agreed with her choice: ""He was the only one who could handle them,"""
"Academy Award for Best Director The Academy Award for Best Director (officially known as the Academy Award for Best Directing) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the film industry. The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held in 1929 with the award being split into ""Dramatic"" and ""Comedy"" categories; Frank Borzage and Lewis Milestone won for ""7th Heaven"" and ""Two Arabian Knights"", respectively. However, these categories were merged for all subsequent ceremonies. Nominees are determined"
"Frances Marion Frances Marion (born Marion Benson Owens, November 18, 1888 – May 12, 1973) was an American journalist, author, film director and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the 20th century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos. She was the first writer to win two Academy Awards. Marion was born Marion Benson Owens in San Francisco, California, to Len Owens and Minnie Benson. She had an older sister, Maude, and a younger brother, Len. Her parents divorced when she was ten, and she lived with her mother. She dropped out of school at age 12,"
"nominations. It was also the eleventh of fifteen films (to date) to receive nominations in all four acting categories. This year's Academy Awards is also notable for the first ever female nominee for Best Director, Lina Wertmüller for ""Seven Beauties"". Barbra Streisand received her second Academy Award, composing music for the love theme ""Evergreen"", the first woman to be honored as a composer, and as of the 90th Academy Awards, the only person to win Academy Awards for both acting and songwriting. No honorary awards were given this year. ABC had the Oscars from 1960–70 and had regained them for"
"at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Richard Dysart and Diane Ladd. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" won four awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, the oldest person at the time to win a competitive acting Oscar. Other winners included ""Glory"" with three awards, ""Born on the Fourth of July"", ""The Little Mermaid"", and ""My Left Foot"" with two, and ""The Abyss"", ""Balance"", ""Batman"", ""Cinema Paradiso"", """", ""Dead Poets Society"", ""Henry V"", ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"", ""The Johnstown Flood"", and ""Work Experience"""